December is a traditionally quiet month across most industries, but the world of open source CMS never truly rests.
Sure, open source vendors (and their contributing communities alike) cooled their jets a little as the new year approached — but there was still plenty going on.

A Cambridge, Mass. technology company wants to use its data science expertise to help federal researchers fight against cancer. Tamr sent a letter to the White House and offered free use of its big data platform. The White House’s Cancer Moonshot Task Force, led by Vice President Joe Biden,

When it comes to website security, what’s the biggest challenge facing businesses today?
If you think most security problems stem from programming issues, you need to look a little deeper, said Peter Pröll, security expert for the TYPO3 Association.

Take a bow, open source content management system (CMS) team members.
Because writing code and paying employees to write code, which is then freely shared without charge with anyone who wants to use it, is how value is being created in 2015, at least according to Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst.
With that pat

WordPress is the world's largest open source CMS. So it's really not surprising that it's also a prime target for hackers worldwide. Just this week, the US FBI issued an alert about the potential danger of individuals sympathetic to Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists abusing vulnerabilities in the WordPress platform.

It goes without saying that WordPress is big — the Goliath of free and open source content management systems (CMS). WordPress is the number 1 CMS system currently in use, and increased its usage on more than 2 million domains since June 2014.

Open source web content management (WCM) provider TYPO3 released a new version of Neos that officials there say improves the user experience for digital marketers in a "smoother" and more "time-saving" way. The Baar, Switzerland, open source vendor today releases Neos 1.

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